John S. Zieser

2020

In 2020, John S. Zieser earned a total compensation of $4.3M as Chief Development Officer, General Counsel at Meredith, a 9% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$2,421,825
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$345,960
Option Awards$279,251
Salary$739,231
Stock Awards$394,975
Other$91,061
Total$4,272,303

Zieser received $2.4M of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, accounting for 57% of the total pay in 2020.

Zieser also received $346K in non-equity incentive plan, $279.3K in option awards, $739.2K in salary, $395K in stock awards and $91.1K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2020, John S. Zieser's compensation ranked 2,663rd out of 13,090 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Zieser earned more than 79.7% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
2,663
out of 13,090
80th
Division
Manufacturing
1,022
out of 5,621
82nd
Major group
Printing, Publishing, And Allied Industries
7
out of 39
82nd
Industry group
Periodical
3
out of 5
40th
Industry
Periodicals: Publishing, or Publishing and Printing
3
out of 5
40th

Pay ratio

John S. Zieser's Pay$4,272,303
Median Employee's Pay$77,987
Pay Ratio

55

to 1

In 2020, the annual total compensation of John S. Zieser was $4,272,303.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Meredith was $77,987.

The ratio of John S. Zieser's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 55 to one.

Source: SEC filing on September 25, 2020.

Zieser's colleagues

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Chief Financial Officer

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